Morbihan
E142615
Morbihan is a coastal department in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its historic towns, megalithic sites, and scenic Gulf of Morbihan.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Morbihan canonical | 77 |
| Morbihan department | 16 |
| department of Morbihan | 2 |
| Morbihan area | 1 |
| Morbihan department (Brittany) | 1 |
| department Morbihan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1238106 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morbihan Context triple: [Saint-Anne-d'Auray, locatedIn, Morbihan]
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A.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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B.
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a department in southwestern France, bordering Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, known for encompassing parts of the Basque Country and Béarn regions.
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C.
Vendée
Vendée is a department in western France known for its Atlantic coastline, rural landscapes, and historical role in the counter-revolutionary uprisings during the French Revolution.
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D.
Poitou
Poitou is a historical region in western France that was a significant stronghold and cultural center for French Protestants (Huguenots) during the Reformation and subsequent religious conflicts.
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E.
Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France, known for its historic towns, Romanesque churches, and Burgundy vineyards.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morbihan Target entity description: Morbihan is a coastal department in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its historic towns, megalithic sites, and scenic Gulf of Morbihan.
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A.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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B.
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a department in southwestern France, bordering Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, known for encompassing parts of the Basque Country and Béarn regions.
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C.
Vendée
Vendée is a department in western France known for its Atlantic coastline, rural landscapes, and historical role in the counter-revolutionary uprisings during the French Revolution.
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D.
Poitou
Poitou is a historical region in western France that was a significant stronghold and cultural center for French Protestants (Huguenots) during the Reformation and subsequent religious conflicts.
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E.
Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France, known for its historic towns, Romanesque churches, and Burgundy vineyards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Morbihan Description of subject: Morbihan is a coastal department in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its historic towns, megalithic sites, and scenic Gulf of Morbihan.
Referenced by (98)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France)
subject linked to:
Loire-Atlantique department
linked to: Morbihan
linked to: Morbihan
subject linked to:
Pontivy, France
linked to: Morbihan
linked to: Morbihan
linked to: Morbihan
linked to: Morbihan
subject linked to:
General Louis Jules Trochu